I'm wrapping up my 5-day Thanksgiving Break by attending a Christmas tree decorating party at my BFF's house this afternoon. While I don't get crazy with Black Friday shopping, I did manage to visit quite a few stores in the downtown district of my town on Small Business Saturday. I found the MOST charming little chocolate shop complete with hand-dipped chocolates, candies, and treats of all kinds. Anyone else shocked at how quickly 2017 is coming to a close?
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Teaching students how to solve double-digit multiplication problems is one of my favorite skills to teach in 4th grade, which is a good thing as it is both an SLO and an ELO. (Don't you just love the educational acronyms flying around already?! LOL) Basically it means "they gotta learn it!" My grade-level team decided on four different strategies to teach students, and from those four we want kids to be proficient in at least two of them. Today's post will share how I structure the distributed … [Read more...]

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Welcome! I am Sally Camden, a 4th grade teacher in the great state of Missouri. I love teaching, my dog, and shopping. I'm also a die-hard fan of the St. Louis Blues and an avid reader. Thank you for joining me on my blog - read my posts and grab some freebies! Read More…

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It’s only the beginning of February, but the winter weather has caused several snow days in my district. This used to mean lots of time devoted to erasing and re-writing my lesson plans by hand. Not anymore! Now that I am using an online lesson planner, writing (and revising) lesson plans has never been so […]

Can anyone explain why reading workshop mini-lessons, which last only 10 minutes, take an hour to plan? What’s up with that?! Am I the only one that wishes a mini-lesson had a minimum amount of prep time? I didn’t think so. Read on, teacher friends, about how you can quickly plan your reading workshop mini-lessons […]